On Aug. 22, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the hi...

Ridglan Farms has agreed to stop selling beagles for scientific studies, leaving just one major U.S. supplier

Listing could affect availability for biomedical studies

The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.

For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat.

Repeat violators of the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) continue to escape meaningful enforcement by the US Department of Agriculture, resulting in continued animal cruelty and sufferin...

A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.

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Amid heightened fears of immigration raids, Alianza Agricola has spent months educating hundreds of their coworkers on how to prepare for an avian flu outbreak.

President Trump has already begun to introduce changes that weaken the Endangered Species Act, a cornerstone of U.S. conservation law.

The Louisiana patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in the first death in the U.S. caused by the H5N1 virus.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an infected backyard flock on the patient's property.

Northwest Naturals of Portland is recalling a batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for H5N1.

An interview with Delci Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

AGI in South Carolina investigated by government after leaked files revealed traumatic injuries and animal deaths

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An interview with Delci Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

EXCLUSIVE: Expert comments on how a bird flu outbreak would be no surprise as CDC announces the "first instance of severe illness" linked to the H5N1 virus in the United States.

Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild.

An interview with Delci Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative lawsuit against Tonia Haddix, a Missouri woman at the center of high-profile legal battles and controversies over exotic animal owners…

A federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of a Maryland law banning the sale of dogs and cats through retail pet shops, rejecting a challenge by Missouri dog breeders and Maryland pet store...

New political environment could provide opening for groups that want to eliminate animal studies

Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild.

It is unclear how the virus got into the zoo but several poultry farms in the same county have reported outbreaks of H5N1

This fall, the Vermont Law and Graduate School welcomed its first class of Brooks Institute for Animal Rights and Policy Animal Law LLM fellows. The four practicing lawyers will spend the school year ...

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

Donald Trump is one of the only U.S. presidents not to have a dog in the White House. Now, he is stacking his Cabinet with others who have their own controversies with man’s best friend.

A Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely.

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Advocates said a lack of animal welfare laws is leading to pain and suffering on American factory farms. Close to 99% of livestock is now raised in industrial-type facilities, where animal welfare gr...

We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.

Meat industry groups are railing against “radical vegan activists.” What are they really upset about?

A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests.